Amba Kulkarni
Distinguished Professor at University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolAmba Kulkarni is a Distinguished Professor and computational linguist blending deep expertise in Indian traditional grammar with modern NLP to build machine translation systems and morphological analyzers for Indian languages. With over three decades spanning academia and industry—from IIT Kanpur research to senior roles at University of Hyderabad and IIT Hyderabad—she leads projects such as ANUSAARAKA and a dependency parser for Sanskrit. Her rare combination of M.Tech in Computer Science, a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, and formal Sanskrit training enables novel applications of Panini’s grammar to contemporary language technology. She has moved between engineering roles and humanities scholarship, applying formal grammatical frameworks to practical system-building. Known for pursuing long-term, cross-linguistic ambitions, she frames research in a cultural as well as technical context, aiming to generalize ancient insights to world languages.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation, Matriculation at Siddheshwar Girl's High School, Solapur, MaharashtraIndian Institute of Technology KanpurM.A. Sanskrit, Sanskrit, M.A. Sanskrit, Sanskrit at Karnataka State Open UniversityPh.D., Applied Linguistics, Ph.D., Applied Linguistics at University of Hyderabadprimary school, primary school at Saraswati Mandir, Solapur, MaharashtraB.Sc., Mathematics, Statistics, Physics and Chemisty, B.Sc., Mathematics, Statistics, Physics and Chemisty at Walchand College of Arts and Science, Solapur, MaharashtraM.Sc., Mathematics, M.Sc., Mathematics at Shivaji University
marathi, hindi, english, telugu, kannadaProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
samsaadhanii/scl
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 700 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
ambaji57/scl
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 commit, 1 branch in 1 day
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